Fictitious Dialogue Between Marx & Weber

Marx: So, Max, here we are, surrounded by the very productive forces (the workers) whose oppression I have long considered to be one of the most terrible artifacts of that capitalism that you so admire (Shaw, 1978). Look at them, Max, look at them! Surely you see that these laborers, "who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodityaand are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market" (Marx & Engels, 1986, p. 87).

Weber: Karl, I have written in many places that I have (like you) a passion for freedom and a disdain for power and dominance disguised as authority (Diggins, 1996). But you -- who have so admirably exhibited a fine sense of history and its relentless movement - fail to ask the critical question that addresses the concept of alienation: Why does the worker work (Diggins, 1996)?

I do not deny that capitalism as both a market system and an ethos creates classes; I do believe, however, that men and women work to satisfy their own needs, regardless of the position in which they find t

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